(formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) The researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt), located in Frankfurt am Main, engage in research on the history and theory of law. Established in 1964, the Institute, with its three departments, the specialist library with over 470,000 printed media units as well as numerous international visitors, has become a worldwide hub for those working on past and present national and transnational legal orders.

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory

(formerly Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
The researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt), located in Frankfurt am Main, engage in research on the history and theory of law. Established in 1964, the Institute, with its three departments, the specialist library with over 470,000 printed media units as well as numerous international visitors, has become a worldwide hub for those working on past and present national and transnational legal orders.

Since 1 January 2021, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has a new name:
Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory / Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtstheorie (mpilhlt).

Multidisciplinary Theory of Law

Department Marietta Auer
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Historical Regimes of Normativity

Department Thomas Duve
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European and Comparative Legal History

Department Stefan Vogenauer
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Governance of the Universal Church after the Council of Trent

Research Group

Translations and Transitions

Research Group

News

Our Institute has a new name

January 11, 2021

Interview with Tamar Herzog

December 28, 2020

Contents of Contracts and Unfair Terms

December 21, 2020

Looking back at the first five years of the new American Journal of Legal History (2016-2020)

December 14, 2020

Grant for Mariana Dias Paes by the American Society for Legal History

December 11, 2020

ERC Consolidator grant for Manuel Bastias Saavedra

December 09, 2020

Events

Law, Custom and the Merchants: Legal Culture of the Mayor’s Court of Madras

Jan 25, 2021 14:15
online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

Law Reporting in the Mandate of Palestine

Feb 8, 2021 14:15 - 15:15
online. For further information please contact whewell@rg.mpg.de

Conference: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History

Mar 4, 2021 - Mar 5, 2021
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Room: Lecture hall of the MPI

Workshop: Colonial Legal Biography

Apr 19, 2021 - Apr 20, 2021
MPIeR

Conference: 4th Annual Conference: Law and Policy in European Integration (1960s-1990s)

Jun 1, 2021 09:30 - Jun 2, 2021 16:00
MPIeR, Room: Z01

Workshop: Second FA Mann Project Workshop

Jun 10, 2021 - Jun 11, 2021
MPIeR
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